The league decided to mix up the Oakland/ San Diego and Seattle/ San Fransisco trips

We would have had Oakland and San Diego but Kansas City is now in Oakland's spot.

The league isn't West Coast sensative.

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Yeah, as I understand it the thought process was that it was a bit unfair that two teams in a division cross three time zones and travel further (to Oakland and San Diego) while two other teams benefit from much shorter travel (to KC and Denver). Similar situation with the NFCW (Seattle & SF vs Arizona & St Louis).

It's a one-time anomaly to fix that - at least until some team moves to LA.

The league decided to mix up the Oakland/ San Diego and Seattle/ San Fransisco trips

We would have had Oakland and San Diego but Kansas City is now in Oakland's spot.

The league isn't West Coast sensative.

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Actually, they're catering to the whiners that complained about the fact that they'd have to play four games out on the West Coast in a single season once every 24 years because of a quirk in the schedule (in most divisions, if you sort the four teams alphabetically, teams 1 and 2 have the same home and away schedules, and so do teams 3 and 4; it just so happens in the AFC West and NFC West, that it puts the two West Coast teams in each division together and the two non-coastal teams together).

Thanks for the responses. I actually like this better as I can catch the Pats on the west coast vs. the AFCW once every 3 years (Oakland or SD, but no longer both) instead of 6. If they did the same with the SF/Seattle pairing, I can do the same for the NFCW every 4 years instead of 8.

I was looking forward to 2032, though, when all 4 games were on this coast I'm sure I'd get great seats in the wheelchair section by then.